Essential Guide to Wildlife DVD

This is a comprehensive guide to taking pictures of wildlife, whether shooting in natural habitats around the world or in captivity in zoos or safari parks. The chapter-based DVD explores framing, lighting and composition of wildlife images. It also looks at the best equipment to use and how to make the most of the opportunities you get.

Although aimed mostly at photographers using EOS cameras, this DVD will also be very useful for those using digital compact and bridge cameras with a long zoom range.

What you will learn with this DVD:

. How the equipment requirements change with subjects and location
. Why specific lenses are used
. Controlling your background using lenses
. Overcoming the problems of shooting in captivity
. Understanding the problems that shooting in the wild gives you
. Understanding the thought process needed for wildlife photography
. Understanding how lighting will affect your wildlife images
. How lighting changes within an image
. The best time of day to shoot wildlife images
. How to frame wildlife images
. Understanding the angles you can shoot at
. The best camera set up to use
. How to set up your camera to capture action
. The best time of year for wildlife photography
. How to get the images you want
. Post production techniques for wildlife images
. Logistics of travelling for wildlife photography